BlackLynx17: So I've recently started watching Steven Universe and I'm so mad nobody has told me how good it is! Like seriously, I can't believe the cartoon! I love it!
I've never wondered before if fairies had tails or not. It doesn't really matter in life, if they do or don't, because nothing in my life has anything to do with fairies. Now I think that they do have tails though, tails and wings so large they could soar out in any situation, in any environment, and shine like the sun.
When I first met these fairies I didn't think there was anything they were scared of, even before meeting them since they decided to show off their magic in a magic hating town. Fearless, is what I thought of them to be. Fearless and nervousness; even though they seem to have nearly the same definition, those two words are extremely different.
"I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do!" Fairy Tail's fearless ringleader succumbs to nervousness as she slams her hands on her head.
And because the ringleader of this whole operation is showing nervousness, of course her whole operation would fall apart right afterward. They are all going crazy, arguing with each other, starting fights, trying to break up fights, like the usual parties except no one is here to control them now. I don't know how this all happened. Just yesterday everyone was acting all excited when Wendy and I brought the news, they were cheering and partying, happy that they've finally being accepted and could come back here next year. I was happy just along with them, even though I didn't stay for the long party and sneaked away with Wendy stealing a few kisses before I finally left.
I came back early in the morning the next day though to this scene right here. Erza falling apart muttering the same words over and over again, everyone else out of control... I don't think I could be in this circus. It's too chaotic, I don't know how I would survive. Maybe I too would learn how to become chaotic as well?
"So what do you usual do about this Jellal?" I ask him.
Jellal sighs next to me and shakes his head, "honestly I don't even care. I let them get it all out of there systems before giving them a solution."
"So you just let them run wild? Really?" I'm surprised.
"Believe me it wasn't easy at first, but you learn quickly that Fairy Tail has its own way at going about things and its best if you let them be them before I slip in some of my council training."
I sigh out and run my hands through my hair before looking around the ground. I need something to call everyone's attention with because I can't stand being here right now among all the chaos and I have no patience for it all to die down. I see a horn on the ground and quickly walk to it, squeezing the ball over and over again letting it sound out loud.
"Excuse me! Excuse me everyone! Pay attention over it! Enough!" I yell out.
I keep squeezing and squeezing until all the fighting and arguing stops and soon everyone's attention is on me, including Erza's as she breaks out of her own little universe.
"What are you doing?" Jellal asks me.
"I'm not use to this chaos, I'm fixing it." I tell him.
"You gotta learn the hard ways sometimes."
I snort at Jellal and roll my eyes at him before turning my attention back to the ringleader, "Erza, do you mind taking charge right now?" I call out to her.
She stands up and starts walking over through the grounds, eyes following her.
"Yes, what is happening right now?" I ask her, just to make sure.
"I have no idea on what performances to do for the show and it's it's a day away. I don't what the others are doing, but I'm trying to figure out what people to put it on." She explains to me.
I drop the horn and check the folder in my hands, pulling out the papers the council sent me on the audience that they'll be performing for.
"Well it's a good thing that you have me then. Let's see... they've requested that you put on a half an hour show for guest from the Fire Village. Now that seems easy enough, okay, yadda, yadda, yadda, alright I got it. The Fire Village is in the middle of a desert mountain area, so of course they won't want to see anything that has to do with Fire or Earth... or Wind, sorry Wendy, since they probably deal with all three of those things on a daily basis."
Erza's eyes start to sparkle and she takes a step closer to me, "go on, please do."
I gulp, "um, so you'll probably want to do water and ice, Gray and Juvia would be nice. Ah- I personally have done a report about the Fire Village's leader and I know he's really into exotic animals, so maybe throwing some of your tigers and elephants, Lisanna's magic could work, and showing off Mirajane's demon strength as well could be nice. I'm sure they'll love that, and um, how long would that take?"
"Mystogun... why didn't you tell us your friend was so amazing?!" Erza exclaims at him.
"Hey! I brought him here first! Not Mystogun!" Wendy yells out from the background.
"Gray and Juvia, Lisanna and Mirajane, yes, I can see it working, but what about for the big finale? It may run a little over time, but we have to leave them completely voiceless." Erza ponders.
"Well you are the ring leader, right? Why don't you have the big finale? To show off exactly what Fairy Tail is all about. I mean the leader might even invite you back for Fire Village or give you an invitation to visit."
Erza slams her hand down on my shoulder and it takes all the strength in me not to fall to my knees.
"Doranbolt, I absolutely love the way you think. You heard the man! Gray! Juvia! Lisanna! Mirajane! Front and center, we need to talk about brand new routines! Everyone else you know your jobs, clean up, get the props ready, the animals ready, new costumes! Someone start on that, and the settings! Group meeting is happening right now, the fate of our circus depends on it!"
Everyone starts moving around, but it was less chaotic as before as they all followed Erza's orders. She looked at me and smiled, bowing awkwardly before turning back around.
"I can't believe that worked." Jellal says next to me.
"That's because your people and negotiation skills suck Jellal, no wonder they never listen to you." I laugh at him.
Jellal smacks the back of my head, but it's still funny.
"Here, make sure they get everything on the right track. I have to make sure everything's going smoothly back home since I am representing them, so I'm leaving the rest to you." I say handing Jellal the folder stocked full of information.
"You don't have to worry, I'm actually your senior, don't forget that."
"Right. No dark colors, make everything try to look as exotic as possible and no red, absolutely no red. The village is called Fire, so you should already know they see enough of it." I warn him.
"Just get going already, you're no longer needed here." Jellal says walking away.
I chuckle and do exactly as he orders, giving everyone one last glance before I start making my way back home. I'm going to have to talk to the council to double check everything and figure out the plans, and then I'll have to be there to greet the guests and introduce them to this new concept and idea we have. That should be easy enough, Fire speaks our language and from what I've read they're very friendly people. If all of this works out this upcoming Saturday... it's going to be a full house. Oh I can't wait to see the surprise on Wendy's face, on everyone's faces, when they perform in front of a full audience.
"So like bro... you've been gone for a really long time now." Jamie says.
I scratch the back of my head with a pencil as I look over the plans, "I know, I'm sorry about that."
I hear a snort, "should we really be all that surprised? He's been hanging around all his new best friends." Lahar says.
"I mean- I liked the circus too, but Doranbolt what you're doing for them-... it's on a whole different level." Jamie tells me.
"If Era ever plans on keeping up with the times then the next we need to start doing is embracing magic. The countries all around us are starting too and if we don't we'll be left behind." I tell them.
"Just leave him alone guys, he already has enough on his plate." Max says, the only one taking my side.
"He's right, the minute those circus people leave town he'll come back to us. All we have to do is wait it out." Lahar says.
My pencil breaks across my paper and I look up, seeing Jamie giving me a sad look, Max glaring at Lahar, and Lahar looking out the window caring less about what he just said. It's my fault, I know it is. Because of all this new excitement I've had in my life I've ignored my boring life, but he's right. Once they live I'm going to go back to that boring life and if I don't have any friends back in it it'll be the most boring life out there.
"Alright listen to me, all of you." I call their attention.
All their eyes turns to me.
"I am sorry for abandoning you. From all the way back to when we were all suppose to watch that circus act together, the truth was that I ran into one of the circus people and she asked me to play the piano for their performances-"
"I knew he looked familiar!" Jamie gasps.
We're lucky it's self-study right now or else we all would have gotten detention right then and there.
"Yeah, I'm sorry for lying back then, but I knew what you guys would have done and said and just-... I don't know if you've guys realized this yet, but our lives are boring." I confess.
I've decided to tell them, not everything about my magic and what I plan on doing in the future, but about how I've been feeling my whole life here. I completely have everyone's attention now as all their eyes go wide at me.
"We grew up our whole lives knowing what we are going to do and I don't know about the rest of you guys, but that bored me. I knew everything about myself, every single thing, and knew exactly what was going to happen to me. I know there are some people who struggle to find out what they want, who wish they knew they did and had an easy laid out life in front of them, but I didn't want that. For once, just once I wanted to experience something that hadn't been laid out for me, that wasn't on the plan, and find out if I was just crazy for thinking something different and return to normal like you guys or figure out... that all of you were crazy for accepting this boring way of life."
"And so going to the circus was that experience?" Max asks me.
"Yeah. I don't know what I was expecting, but nothing at all of what I saw. Lahar, guys, you have to believe me. Honestly I did not plan for myself to get wrapped up in all of this. I thought I would go, get let down, feel sorry for all those circus people for doing crazy stunts for money when they didn't even have a real job, and return back to Era feeling better and looking at my life differently... but it just made me realize how stuff this place really is."
"So that's it? You're leaving with them? When were you going to tell us?" Lahar asks.
"What? No! I'm not going with them." I tell him.
"Well it certainly sounds like it Doranbolt! Especially since you hate your life!"
"I don't hate my life!"
"Well from what you've been saying so far I highly doubt that!"
"Lahar, I worked my whole life for this. Even though it's been laid out, even though it's been planned from my birth, I want this. I want to go to college here and join the council making the world a better place. My dream hasn't changed at all, I'm still in it with you." I tell him.
Lahar's eyes harden, but I see a certain tenderness to them.
"What I'm doing right now isn't only to satisfy my own boring life, but everyone else as well. We don't leave, we don't go anywhere, we stay in our safe little ruts and I want to change that. I want to expand Era's view and this right here, this circus is the first step. Maybe more people will start visiting, maybe more people will start leaving Era and explore the world seeing all it has to offer. I love my city, but I don't like how it's become lazy. None of you have ever thought about leaving this place, right? Don't you think that's horrible how we're not even encourage to expand our horizon and find out how things work out at other places in the world?"
"Honestly guys, I thought my life was a bit boring," Jamie says.
"You think anything with work is boring Jamie," Max replies to him.
"No guys, honestly. I think it's scary that I know what my future is going to be. That gives me no chances at mistakes, no chances at all to change, I know of what's expected of me and that's scary to me. I'm not the only one, I'm sure of it, Doranbolt is just the first out of all of us to finally do something about it." Jamie confesses.
"And it's wrong that you have to be scared Jamie. You shouldn't be, you shouldn't be worried to say these things out loud, it's not strange or uncommon... we just don't know any better." I sigh out.
"You want to change Era, but I don't know if it's for the better Doranbolt." Lahar says.
"You saw them up close to Lahar, did you feel nothing?" I ask him.
"I admit it was a sight, but Doranbolt... what you're talking about, it isn't going to change over time. What you're talking is about a long time and a lot of work."
"Time and work I'm willing to sacrifice."
"Hopefully you're not planning on your own. Our dream was to make Era better together, and if you think this is one way of doing it, I'll help. I know you'd give me your support for my own way." Lahar says, "but I know you have a point. Those mages... all that power, you aren't wrong about Era being left behind if we don't start catching up on the times."
"Lahar," I say.
"I was never planning on staying here."
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"WHAT?!" We all yell staring at Max.
Max looks at us and shrugs, "what? Is it that surprising?"
"But- but our plans? Our talks?" Jamie stutters.
"I don't even remembering saying anything about my own plans during our talks about the council." Max shrugs again.
"So what do you plan on doing?" I ask him.
"I don't know. After graduation I planned on writing you all a letter before packing up my things and disappearing into the night. I might have came back here after traveling around the world, I might have found a spot where I'd like to stay at, but I liked the uncertainty of it all. Not knowing, that's my favorite part of doing this."
"And you weren't even going to tell your parents?" Lahar asks.
"Screw his parents, you weren't going to tell us?" Jamie cries.
"I know if you guys would have asked I would have stayed, so no, and especially not my parents. The only reason I'm telling you all now is because I feel like you guys are all different. You don't have to live this life, Doranbolt's right, we can choose what we want to do. This doesn't have to be everything."
Jamie growls out loud and lets it all out, rubbing his hands all through his hair before he slams them on the desk and settles himself back down.
"What do you need help with Doranbolt?" Jamie asks me.
I blink, "huh?"
"Your plan! The circus! What do you need help with? If I couldn't even tell what my best friend was feeling after knowing him my whole life that's definitely telling me that's something is wrong with our town and I want to fix it! So tell me, what do you need help on? I'm here for you, for all of you guys." Jamie says.
"Jamie," Max says.
"He's right, one little stain like this won't tarnish my reputation if it all goes horribly wrong, and once you have my help I'm sure it'll be a huge success you'll have to thank me for." Lahar smirks at me, "not likely you can do this plan without my help."
"I've been doing fine without you." I smirk back at him.
"I'm here for you too guys, for as long as I'm staying here for I want to make the best of things." Max says.
"You'll still right us though, right Max? You won't completely forget about us." Jamie asks.
"Of course not." Max answers him.
"Good! I knew you didn't hate us that much Max! Hahaha!" Jamie starts laughing.
I can't believe... how easy everything turned out... when I told them the truth. What did I have to be afraid of? These were my best friends right here. I don't bother hiding my smile, my wide smile as I reach out my arms and hug all of them close to me.
"You guys are the best!"
"Ah! Doranbolt! Let go!" Lahar groans.
"Hahaha! Bro hug!" Jamie laughs.
"Ten more seconds before I start hitting people." Max says.
I squeeze tighter before letting everyone go, "alright, let's get started on these plans."
I had the best of friends, magic and non-magic.